[H-GEN] named on RedHat 7.x

[Greg Black]

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Nikolai Lusan wrote:

| On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Ewan Edwards wrote:
| 
| > I suppose I'm guilty of neglecting to mention the box he's running this on is
| > a 486-100 with 48MB RAM.  Still negligable?
| 
| That depends on what else the box is running, how much swap it has and
| how loaded it is. I still have a cyrix 5x86-100 with 32 MB of ram, that
| machine can quite comfortably handle gateway, sendmail, bind and my
| general usage needs quite comfortably - it's compilation where it gets
| painful.

Indeed.  Until relatively recently I used a 486-33 with 16 MB of
RAM as my gateway, mail server, general master name server, web
server, firewall and a few other tasks.  It handled that just
fine and was only retired when its last disk died.  I am now
preparing a Pentium-100 to take over that job because that's the
slowest box I have available.

Not that I advocate forking useless processes as a programming
solution, but that's really another topic.

Greg

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